lobster

English

lobster (1)

Etymology

From Middle English lopster (“lobster”), from Old English loppestre (“lobster, spider-like creature”), believed to be a corruption of Latin locusta (“lobster, locust”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre; or from Old English lobbe, loppe (“spider”). More at lop.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈlɒb.stə(r)/
• (US) IPA: /ˈlɑːb.stɚ/

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Adjective

lobster (comparative more lobster, superlative most lobster)

1. red-colored, especially from a sunburn.

Noun

lobster (countable and uncountable; plural lobsters)

1. A crustacean of the Nephrodidae family, normally red in colour, with claws, which is used as an expensive seafood.
2. (historical) A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).
3. (slang) An Australian twenty dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.

Synonyms

• (crustacean) cray
• (British soldier) lobsterback, redcoat

Derived terms

• bight lobster
• furry lobster
• globster
• lobsterback
• lobsterer
• lobsterette
• lobsterish
• lobsterlike
• lobsterman
• lobster pot
• lobster shift
• lobster thermidor
• lobstery
• Norway lobster
• reef lobster
• rock lobster
• slipper lobster
• spiny lobster
• squat lobster
• true lobster

Translations

crustacean

Afrikaans: kreef (af) Albanian: karavidhe (sq) Arabic: كركند (ar) (karkand) m. Armenian: օմար (hy) (òmar) Asturian: llocántaru (ast) m. Azeri: xərçəng (az) Basque: otarraina (eu) Belarusian: амар (be) Bulgarian: омар (bg) Catalan: llagosta (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 龍蝦 (cmn), 龙虾 (cmn) (lóngxiā) Croatian: hlap (hr) m. Czech: humr (cs) m. Danish: hummer (da) c. Dutch: zeekreeft (nl) m., kreeft (nl) m. Estonian: homaar Finnish: hummeri (fi) French: homard (fr) m. German: Hummer (de) m. Greek: αστακός (el) (astakós) m. Haitian Creole: woma Hebrew: סרטן־ים (he) (sartan-yam) Hungarian: homár (hu) Icelandic: humar (is) m.

Indonesian: udang laut (id), lobster (id) Irish: gliomach (ga) m. Italian: astice (it) m., aragosta (it) f. Japanese: 伊勢海老 (ja), イセエビ (ja) (ise-ebi), ロブスター (ja) (robusutā) Korean: 가재 (gajae) Latvian: omārs (lv) Macedonian: јастог (mk) (jástog) m. Malay: udang kara (ms) Manx: gimmagh (gv) m. Navajo: chʼoshtsoh biláshgaantsohí Norwegian: hummer (no) Persian: خرچنگ دریایی (fa) Polish: homar (pl) Portuguese: lagosta (pt) f. Romanian: homar (ro) Russian: омар (ru) (omár) m., лобстер (ru) (lóbster) m. Scottish Gaelic: giomach (gd) m. Spanish: langosta (es) f. Swedish: hummer (sv) c. Tagalog: ulang (tl) Turkish: ıstakoz (tr) Vietnamese: tôm hùm (vi) Welsh: cimwch (cy) m., cimychiaid (cy) pl.

See also

• crawfish
• crayfish
• prawn
• shrimp
• yabby
• Lobster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

lobster (third-person singular simple present lobsters, present participle lobstering, simple past and past participle lobstered)

1. To fish for lobsters.

Anagrams

• bolster, bolters, trobles